(WOWK) — Extreme Drought conditions have expanded across the WOWK viewing area in West Virginia and Ohio according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor. The bright red areas are considered to be in the category of ‘Extreme Drought’ on the map below.
Other ways to visualize the conditions start with the lack of rainfall compared to normal over the last 30 days. The red areas in the image shown below are about 3 inches behind normal for the last month.
Only a few spots in Scioto County, Nicholas County and southeastern Kentucky are at or above normal in terms of normal rainfall over the last month.
Weather models do not hold much hope in the next week for much in the way of rain. The official government forecast for rainfall totals is shown immediately below.
